It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is infinitely better to rely on the pursuit of economic interest by landowners or street companies than to depend on the dubious “altruism” of bureaucrats and government officials.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen.

I make time every day to think.

God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

I'm not the guy to ask about the most up to date stuff.